Word Balloon: Marty Pasko - The DC Vault

On this edition of the Word Balloon podcast, writer Marty Pasko discusses his work writing the text of The DC Vault from Running Press.

Like last year's Marvel Vault, The Museum In A Book, The DC Vault
features a history of the company, incredible art, and wonderful
replicas of DC merchandise, from Jr Justice Society decoders, and
membership certificates, to promotional tie-ins, cover roughs, ashcan
issues, an all-star artist jam poster with work from Bob Kane, to
Carmine Infantino to Dave Gibbons numerous sketches and memos from the
kill list of the original Crisis On Infinite Earths, to Mike Carlin's plot diagram for The Death Of Superman.
In this audio interview, Pasko provides an historic commentary spanning
the eras, with tales about the genre trends that sandwiched the
super-hero eras, the company dynamics from the early days of All
American/National Periodicals, to it's current status as an arm of Time
-Warner Inc, and observations about DC founder Major Malcolm
Wheeler-Nicholson, Julie Schwartz, Bill Finger, Whitney Ellsworth,
Frank Robbins, and Jennette Kahn.